Tag: lyft
The city is making it easier to become a cabbie. The New York Times reports that the Taxi & Limousine Commission has dropped a significant portion of the geography questions from its rigorous 80-question test, meaning that cabbies won’t know New York City’s streets as well as they once did, which was never that good. […]
After an earnings report by yellow-cab money lender Medallion Financial Corp. showed profits, financial analysts and the media saw it as a sign that taxis have successfully fended off the threats of app companies like Uber and Lyft. But, according to Crain’s New York, the report doesn’t show us the whole picture. And, when we […]
New York City councilmembers are pretty pissed with Uber, so it’s not incredibly surprising that one councilman has proposed a free taxi e-hail app that would compete with private companies like Uber and Lyft. Councilman Ben Kallos has proposed legislation that would allow New Yorkers to e-hail yellow and green cabs without worrying about surge […]
San Francisco-based taxi app start-up Uber has come under a lot of scrutiny from all sides recently, with accusations of sexism, breaches of privacy with customer data, and allegations of unfair pay. The multiple controversies have worried New York City councilmembers that Uber is not in compliance with city law, and at a hearing on […]
